Essays and Miscellanies, V.3
Middlesex, England : Echo Library, [2006]
Format: Book
Description: 533 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
Philosophical essays: That it is not possible to live pleasurably according to the doctrine of Epicurus -- That a philosopher ought chiefly to converse with great men -- Sentiments concerning nature, with which philosophers were delighted -- Abstract of a discourse showing that the Stoics speak greater improbabilities than the poets -- Symposiacs -- Common conceptions against the Stoics -- Contradictions of the Stoics -- The eating of flesh -- Concerning fate -- Against Colotes, the disciple and favorite of Epicurus -- Platonic questions.
Literary essays: The life and poetry of Homer -- The banquet of the seven wise men -- How a young man ought to hear poems -- Abstract of a comparison between Aristophanes and Menander -- The malice of Herodotus.
Literary essays: The life and poetry of Homer -- The banquet of the seven wise men -- How a young man ought to hear poems -- Abstract of a comparison between Aristophanes and Menander -- The malice of Herodotus.
Subjects:
Plutarch.
Greek essays -- Translations into English.
Literature -- Collections.
Philosophy.
Ethics.
Greek prose.
Plutarch.
Greek essays -- Translations into English.
Literature -- Collections.
Philosophy.
Ethics.
Greek prose.
ISBN:
1406832243 (pbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Classical Plu V.3 | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |